Replica Disney Dancers Take North Korea Stage

By

Evan Ramstad

July 9, 2012

SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun and other top officials attended a televised variety show over the weekend that included dancers imitating Walt Disney Co. characters such as Mickey Mouse, a noteworthy development in an authoritarian regime that routinely criticizes the U.S. and other foreign cultures.

The dancers' costumes weren't precise replicas of Disney characters, and Disney told the Associated Press that it didn't...